reporting again from my house. this kind of tells you all you need to know about how it's going for me. last night, netflix recommended that i watch what i eat. here in california certain types of stores will be allowed to open in a limited capacity starting tomorrow. just in time for the most confusing day of the year for mike pence --mother's day. the captain of the space force was in alexandria, virginia today. you see here he is with no mask on, wheeling boxes of ppes into a health care center. and doing his best to lift them. what a hero. just barely in the door. and since it was going so well, and also because he didn't realize he had a mic on, magic mike decided to keep it going. listen in closely here. >> is this for the camera? >> jimmy: mike pence pretending to carry empty boxes into a health care center, what a hero.

a big box of nothing carrying another box of nothing. his boss got a bit of unsettling news. one of the president's personal valets has tested positive for coronavirus, which is a big deal. he works very closely with the president on a personal level. he does everything from handing him the remote to turn on fox news in the morning to grinding up his adderall at night. the white house says trump takes a test every day and tested negative. you think he gets that swab shoved up his nose? i wonder what kind of sound he makes when he gets this. he doesn't have time for that. he is very busy obstructing justice and redecorating his wall, he wants the border wall painted black, so it will get hot and people won't want to climb it. i wonder if any of his advisers

will let him know that the sun doesn't come out at night. the paint job will cost anywhere from $500 million to $3 billion to complete, which is a lot of money, to paint the wall that doesn't exist. but don't worry, trump put his number one son-in-law in charge, jared kushner. whenever there's a job around the white house, jared gets it, he's like the least reliable handy man. meanwhile, there's a feud brewing between steve mnuchin and axel rose. axel rose tweeted, whatever anyone previously thought of mnuchin he's officially an a-hole. and mnuchen said what have you done for the country lately. but instead of the united states flag emoji, he used the flag of liberia. he had to delete it and repost it with the american flag.

then axel reposted. what a development this is. this is steve mnuchin. the bad blood goes way back to when steve played guitar in their band using the statement name "slash." i look forward to their reunion tour. as you are hopefully aware, mother's day is sunday. i got my mom a card that says, "why did you bring me into this world?" we have another disney family singalong sunday night on abc. and that should give mom some peace. but not enough. i had originally planned to send my wife to a spa for a few hours but that's not happening anymore because everything is diseased. all mothers really want right now is some quiet time to be left alone. so i think i have a good idea. and i'm going to share it with you now. a great place to get away that has air conditioning and music and really everything you need is the car.

i made you what you like. your medicine. >> thank you. >> jimmy: thank you for everything you do. and we want you to know that we appreciate you. >> yeah, got it. >> jimmy: okay. i call it the car-garita. that's all you do. put your wife in the car. remember, no drinking and driving, take the key. she'll be happy, all right? that's your tip. ♪ and i guess she'll get out of there on sunday. most moms, as we all know, love to text. almost as much as they love leaving long voicemails. so over the past few months, before the virus drove us underground, we'd been asking our celebrity guests to read real text messages from the women who brought them into this world. and the result is this -- mom texts. ♪ >> my mother and i are neighbors in long island, so sometimes i will get a text like this. can i come swim?

my pool is 72. brrrr. don't have to eat. i have plenty. actually going for a walk. maybe tomorrow. no. fine. i changed my mind. didn't want to get wet. >> so i texted my mom recently. what's up with you guys? and she replied, we're watching the crown. what's up with you? two question marks. we can utilize the pause button, exclamation point. oh, i forgot you could utilize the pause button. >> my home girl's selling burritos, let me know if you want one. she making the -- on the floor? >> don't ever, ever dive into a swimming pool ever or an ocean or lake ever. no matter what. you cannot rely on someone

saying it's safe or deep enough. oceans have sandbars that look deep but are really up to your ankle. just scoot in or go in on your bottom. even jumping feet first is dangerous too. unless you ball up tightly. you can jam your legs and do the same damage if you don't ball up when jumping. avoid both. you're tall, and you cannot risk it at all. never, no matter what. love you. >> were you ever contacted to be in the south dakota anti-meth campaign? their slogan is controversial. just curious. no. i wasn't. >> can you talk? call me if you can, but imagine that in like a bronx, jewish accent, and then i say, you're writing this to the whole family. name a family member you want to talk to and we can figure this out. to which, my mom responds, i want to talk to everyone! i yell it, because she put three exclamation points at the end. >> my mom and i watch old movies

on turner classic movies. we watched "giant." she wrote, sal mineo had a big head, although he was attractive. hmm, yep. >> dearest boop. interesting day here, was wielding a hand held small vacuum on the stairs yesterday, missed my footing, fell backwards, vacuum whirled up and crashed onto my arm and then onto the whole floor. i executed some sort of swivel halfway down the stairs and nearly followed it nose first but managed to clutch the bannisters, thought my arm was broken badly. just badly bruised. phew. i finished the day with a lovely thai meal. >> we got our shingles vaccine this morning. sweet dreams, my love. love you so very much. i love you so very much too, mom. >> so i had a sketch on snl get cut for time.

and then when she saw what went in its place she texted me this. that last sketch [ bleep ]. that's a good mom. >> jimmy: well, happy worst mother's day ever. we have a fun show tonight. we are going to honor a mother/daughter team of nurses tonight. and we'll be right back with courteney cox. ♪ >> oh. yeah, that's good. by bringing together our two networks, t-mobile will build america's largest and most reliable 5g network... with more towers, more engineers, and more coverage. you'll get the best 5g network, and the best prices. welcome to t-mobile. america's largest 5g network.

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♪ >> jimmy: welcome back to jimmy kimmel live from my house. we have quite a line up for you next week. our guests will be adam sandler, lionel richie, stephen curry, and bill murray!

i dare anyone to beat that! you know and love our guest tonight. she has a new season of "9 months with courteney cox" returning sunday to facebook watch. please welcome courteney cox. i like your head wear! >> thank you. this is for that, the big wasp, the murder bee. >> jimmy: the murder hornet. you've moved on from protecting yourself from the coronavirus, now protecting yourself from the murder hornet. >> i'm just double protecting. i wear a mask. i've got a hat, i have to protect myself from all sides. >> jimmy: the last time i checked on you, i think you were almost out of food. your cupboards were nearly bare, but you were afraid to go shopping because of the virus. you didn't want to get sick. but fortunately, the bravest heros, the paparazzi, they captured you out, that is you in

fully protected shopping. >> that is me. i am wearing glasses that turn into sunglasses. i'm wearing gloves, my beekeeper's hat and a mask. how did they know that was me? >> jimmy: i don't know. i really don't know. there could be a nuclear dirty bomb, and you would be okay wearing that outfit. >> well, done so far so good, knock on wood. >> jimmy: did you get enough stuff? do you have everything you need? >> yes, i actually now, i do go to the farmer's market on sundays and i know how to protect myself in all of that gear, and i'm cooking so much i'm exhausted from cooking. >> jimmy: what are you making? what's on the menu? what are you making tonight? >> tonight i'm going to make turkey burgers with poblano peppers, i got that recipe from a really good friend of mine. i've made a lot of steak, a ton of roast chicken. i met this chef in new york.

which i'm going to post about later. he's been zooming with me and teaching me how to do certain things. it's been great. >> jimmy: that's convenient to have a zoom chef on hand. so, do you know, as far as mother's day goes, i don't know if you've been going to the farmer's market, do you know if your daughter, coco, is planning anything. >> i'm just glad that spencer's, the store, is not open. because i seem to get a lot of stuff from like oz. i think last year she got me a book "the sound of farts." but i want a nice hand-written letter, talking about her love for me. >> jimmy: your daughter got you a book of fart sounds last year. >> that's right. >> jimmy: what a beautiful gift. it's kind of funny, because you're doing this, this docuseries, this is the second season of this, this is really like, to be honest, it's not the kind of thing i think i would enjoy, but it's so great. i just watched the first episode.

it's so compelling. it really, it's the story of these women who are having babies, and you follow them through the whole pregnancy, and they shoot themselves. and you've got some -- well, talk about some of the people that are on this special. >> okay. this is our second season, and, you know, you come back to your second season. you think how do you top these incredible people we followed last year, but somehow we have incredible people. we got a, one girl has cerebral palsy, and the struggles that we follow her life and the struggles she goes through carrying a child. we have, we have twins that, one was trying to get pregnant and one happened to get pregnant just by mistake. and how they have to, like during this coronavirus how they can't spend time together. and it's, it's incredibly touching show. i'm so proud of it. >> jimmy: it is amazing and well-timed for mother's day, too. and it also is nice to see

something positive, you know, to see people who are in the hospital for a good reason, which doesn't happen that often. and by the way, speaking of mothers, when we come back, and i'd love for you to help me with this. we've found a couple of women who volunteered who left their city, left their town to go to new york to work as nurses right there in the thick of all of it, and they are mother and daughter, and when we come back, we will salute and meet our health care heroes of the week with courteney cox, we'll be right back. ♪ >> dicky: portions of "jimmy kimmel live" are brought to you by corona. stay safe and order in to join corona's efforts in supporting the restaurant community.

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♪ >> jimmy: welcome back to "jimmy kimmel live" from my house. it is now time to honor not one but two healthcare heroes of the week. they are nurses from little rock, arkansas who volunteered to go to new york to help with the covid relief effort there. and they are mother and daughter. which is perfectly lovely, as we celebrate mother's day. please say hello to ooochay and ona. how are you? >> we're fine, how are you? >> hi, jimmy, i'm excited to see you. >> jimmy: i'm excited to see, you too. what a great thing you've done. tell us how this happened. how did you wind up going from arkansas? whose idea was it and how did it happen?

>> well, i'm from nigeria. i had a bad marriage, and i decided to move on. so i came to the states. >> jimmy: mm-hm. >> became a nurse. initially started as a waitress. >> jimmy: where did you work as a waitress? >> i worked in waffle house. i worked in taco bell. >> jimmy: oh, all right. and then you got your nursing degree? >> yes. i got my lpn license, got my rn license, then went to nurse-practitioner school and have my np. >> jimmy: got you. and your daughter followed in your footsteps? also became a nurse? >> yes. >> yes, correct. >> jimmy: and who thought, hey, you know what? this is great working here in arkansas, but we should go to new york where we can really help. >> well, i initially thought, you know, why not come to new york and help others. i noticed that the staff was pretty much overwhelmed out here, so i thought, let's come to new york and help. >> jimmy: were they happy and grateful to see you when you got

to new york to help? >> oh, my gosh. >> oh, my gosh. new york. >> everybody was so happy. everybody opened up with open arms, everybody welcomed us here. i mean from the staff. people were coming up saying thank you for coming to help us, we needed the help. >> my hospital embraced me. new york has been wonderful. >> jimmy: do you feel that things are getting better there now? >> definitely. i think things are definitely getting better. compared to when i first came. i only had high admissions. the patient ratio were a bit much. out, you know, i work in the icu, so i would get maybe seven to eight intubated patients, now i'm getting about two to three patients, it's got a lot better. >> jimmy: i know you guys have been working 12 hour shifts, living in a hotel, there are nurses from all over the country who are also there to help.

i want you to meet someone who you may know, courteney cox. say hello? >> hi. >> hey! >> how are you? >> jimmy: we have a couple of surprises for you. courteney, why don't you begin with our first surprise. >> we know you're busy saving lives, but we also heard you have never experienced new york pizza, is that right? >> yes, that's right. >> jimmy: oh, wow, all right. so the guys at f and f pizzaria in brooklyn, which is the real new york pizza, they have a couple pizzas for you. they're going to deliver those right now, and we got 100 pizzas for all the other nurses in your unit there. just in case none of them have had time for new york pizza. we've delivered it safely. if you're excited about this. >> i can't believe this. >> jimmy: just to make everyone jealous, show us one of those

pizzas. on the pizza, you will see, in pepperoni, we've written 10k, that's because our friends at mary kay want the to thank you for your work and courage so they're giving you each $10,000 to spend however you like. >> oh, my gosh. >> jimmy: and they're also sending mary kay skin care and sanitizer to the other nurses with you there. that is the least that any of us can do. i want to thank mary kay for that, too. >> thank you so much. >> thank you so much. >> jimmy: i want to see you try the pizza, right, courteney? >> i can't wait. >> jimmy: give us your honest assessment. this is exciting for me. all right. you know the proper way to eat new york pizza, you got to fold it. >> oh, really? >> jimmy: yes, yes, not that way, though. there you go. give it a try, tell us what you think. >> i'm trying to learn.

>> jimmy: yeah. well, okay, we got to work on your folding. what do you think? >> it's really good. >> awesome. >> mm. >> that's good. >> jimmy: thank you to you both. we appreciate it. i know courteney was excited to be a part of thanking you. you are so great for traveling from home and working so hard and thank you to mary kay for these generous donations. i also want to thank courteney cox. courtney's charity that she is promoting is the fight against als, team nancy with an i,.org. thank you courteney cox and thank you both, we appreciate everything you're doing there. >> thank you, thank you monica, thank you, monica. >> jimmy: we'll be right back. ♪ >> you fold it up like this. >> you know i'm from africa, we don't -- okay.

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♪ >> jimmy: that's all the time we have. i'd like to thank courtney cox, oochay and ona, and apologize to matt damon. "nightline" is next. be safe. and remember this slogan: "do what's expected, and you won't get infected." i'm still working on it, but you get the gist. goodnight. this whole thing started in a nail salon. the governor surprise revelation. what will your next man cure look like? >> businesses like this can reopen according to the health officer come tomorrow. some not happy about it. >> a doctor treating covid-19 patients in new york what he she

has is different between san francisco and new york hospitals right now. >> felt more like summer than spring today. how long the heat is hanging around. we're moving forward. we're doing it always with an eye being led by the data, science, by public health. >> it's the day many retailers have been waiting for. tomorrow begins phase two of the governors plan to slowly reopen the state. that means some stores will be alieued to open under strict guidelines using curb side pickup. >> four local counties will follow the governors orders or close to it. that sparked a lot of confusion. >> as we explain, even tonight the health officer was stl finalizing his plan. >> w